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News for PreschoolsFebruary 2016 |
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. Mark van Doren E-Books for Everyone Do you know that you can check out and return library books without coming to the library? Your Palatine Library card plus a tablet, smartphone, or computer give you the ability to download e-books and e-audiobooks for children and adults from our MyMediaMall site. At home, at school, or on vacation, your library card brings you good reading! For Your Students Mighty Math Thursday, February 11, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Stories and activities to help preschoolers get ready for kindergarten learning. For children ages 3 through 5 with parent/caregiver. Drop in. Rumpelstiltskin Tuesday, February 16, 11:00 a.m.-Noon Come along as the Improv Playhouse spins this classic fairytale about a mysterious little man into a heap of laughs. Preschool-Grade 3. Tickets available February 9. |
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The End of the Rainbow : How Educating for Happiness Not Money Would Transform Our Schools by Susan L. EngelThe End of the Rainbow asks what would happen if we changed the implicit goal of education and imagines how different things would be if we made happiness, rather than money, the graduation prize. Drawing on psychology, education theory, and a broad range of classroom experiences across the country, Engel offers a fascinating alternative view of what education might become: teaching children to read books for pleasure and self-expansion and encouraging collaboration. All of these new skills, she argues, would not only cultivate future success in the world of work but also would make society as a whole a better, happier place.
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Thing Explainer : Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall MunroeThe New York Times best-selling author of What If? and the creator of the webcomic xkcd uses line drawings and common words to provide simple explanations for how things work, including microwaves, bridges, tectonic plates, helicopters and much more.
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Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers : Portraits of Fifty Famous Folks & All Their Weird Stuff by James Gulliver HancockThis cultural who's-who illuminates 50 famous figures, from Leonardo da Vinci to Coco Chanel, through the fascinating trivia of their lives. Artist James Gulliver Hancock depicts historical icons in quirky annotated portraits surrounded by their associated possessions, baggage, and foibles. Hemingway's hobbies, Amelia Earhart's preferred dessert, Martin Luther King Jr.'s favorite TV show—each portrait reveals the ordinary quirks of these extraordinary people and captures their personalities in the process.
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